Travel photo of the week: Sea-to-sky cable car, Norway

The Loen Skylift will offer a world of wondrous fjord and landscape views from the top of Mount Hoven when it opens on 20 May

The standard view of Norway’s vertiginous fjords is from the deck of a boat, with necks craned to take in the scale. But from next weekend, the perspective will change with the opening of the Loen Skylift, which will whisk landscape lovers from the village at the easternmost end of the Nordfjorden to the top of Mount Hoven at 1,011m. Claimed to be the world’s steepest aerial ropeway, the journey will take five minutes and deliver 45 people at a time to timeless views, hiking trails, a via ferrata, a suspension bridge and, of course, the inevitable mountaintop restaurant.
Photograph: Lars Korvald/Loen Skylift